‘My role was making movies that mattered,’ says Jodie Foster, as ‘Taxi Driver’ turns 50

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January 14, 2026

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Jodie Foster, shown here in 2025, plays an American Freudian psychoanalyst in Paris in <em>Vie Privée</em> (<em>A Private Life).</em>

Foster was just 12 years old when she starred in the 1976 film. “What luck to have been part of that, our golden age of cinema in the ’70s,” she says. Her latest film is Vie Privée (A Private Life).

(Image credit: Gareth Cattermole)